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ONLY in the terms of speed. If you are targeting New Yorkers, you probably want to serve them as fast as possible. An offshore server will deliver slower that a server in Virginia (Amazon AWS) for example.

Using a CDN can probably eliminate that issue as almost ALL CDN providers have multiple servers across the US, still the dynamic content will be loaded from the main server, but that is usually the smallest amount of data (while CSS and JS files are usually what slows down loading and rendering).

Hope that helps!

I think you are completely correct. Making a responsive design does not mean "hiding the content that doesn't fit" rather "displaying it differently" so any user under any device is able to see the entire content without having to zoom in/out.

The example you posted about Wikipedia is the exact live example.

You could, however, remove areas of the page that have no actual value to a user browsing from a mobile device, that is acceptable, as even if you showed it they wouldn't be even able to see it (ex: flash content). This can be seen on sites that have floating social media buttons, than when on a mobile site, they usually accommodate those buttons elsewhere or completely hide them

Took a quick look at your site. Those affiliate links are nofollow, so you are safe on that matter.

You are also adding valuable content (is it unique? written specifically for the offer?), which is actually great and it is what Google wants.

So, in my humble opinion you are everything that you are supposed to do. Keep it that way!

Hope that helps!

Seems that you have lots of plugins that could interfere with the real results. Google is picking up your Title, and description tags accurately. What you are seeing is a local listing. You can also edit that listing to help Google better describe the business. But to answer your question, google is showing the correct title/desc tags:

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Hey Tina,

I'm afraid your colleagues saying that the best way to go is to have it under a subfolder are right. Basically, all search engines consider subdomains as separate domains, meaning that if you put the learning center on learning.website.com will have the same effect as having it on somenewdomain.com, neither will help website.com unless you link from one to the other, and that could be seen as doorway pages which will ultimately hurt more than they could help.

Using a subfolder, any advantage you get from website.com/learn/ will influence website.com without putting website.com at risk (unless you post completely unrelated stuff in that new folder). But as you trying to write about the same niche, it is like basically having a blog. Take this Moz section for example. The community folder in a subfolder under their "money site" and I assure you it is working far better than if it was a subdomain.

I'm with your colleagues on this one

Hope that helps!

There are over 200 factors Google considers to rank sites. I've seen sites that are just published being ranked above sites with over 7 or more years in business. It all changes and their algorithm is always trying to guess what is the visitor looking for.

In my niche, there are 2 sites above me, ranked 2nd and 3rd, with no authority, no backlinks, no content, not a good design/page/service, etc, still they are STILL there.

The data Moz shows can give you a CLUE on how is your site performing, but it will be even better if you see their data as trends. For example, you start to create new content daily, GOOD, interesting content, you then see a boost in your rankings, still not getting the place you think you deserve, don't worry, that trend shows you that creating content is working, keep doing it.

You can also ask for some help in the Google Webmaster Forums, the guys there are usually rude, but almost always right

Hope that helps.

That totally depends on the template you are using. If the template does not have that as an option, then you can code your own author snippet to show in each post.

If you are unfamiliar with Wordpress coding, I would suggest you hire an experienced designer/coder to achieve what you are looking for. Freelancer.com is a good and cheap source of coders.

Hope that helps.

As Tim pointed, it is a common practice on examiner to nofollow their outbound links.

I personally found that disgusting... (regardless the site doing it) they are "profiting" with what you wrote while not giving you any credit. Yeah, I also get the point of being featured on their site, organic link traffic, etc. but still, they are quoting me, naturally, why not linking naturally too.

My quick guess, is that they do so many product reviews, they are just covering their a***s against any advertorial accusation that could led to a penalty...

Take the example of Amazon. There are several products that they do not ship outside the US, and just by adding a notice on the product page should be enough. Try getting the IP location and then add a message in the product page specifying that the product is only available for XX.

You can even go a little farther by adding related products that ARE available for that user similar to the ones he's looking.

I agree, it doesn't make any sense. I would redirect everything instead to a subfolder:

example.domain.com -> domain.com/example

example.domain.com/page-1 -> domain.com/example/page-1

The traffic data is extracted from Analytics, therefore if Google is sending you traffic with the keyword hidden/removed/not provided, Moz can't also know, therefore that traffic numbers only reflect what Analytics says.

If a visitor comes from Google but with the keyword stripped, it is still a search visitor, but not counted on any keyword, both under Moz or Analytics.

You could decrease the "not provided" hits by using SSL on on pages (to be able to count SOME of the hits from logged in or HTTPS searches) but even doing that, Google is stripping the keyword, and soon we won't know which ones are actually being searched.

The moat accurate report you can get on Keywords (search, clicks, CTR, etc) is Webmaster Tools.

Hope that helps!

Hmm... my best guess is that if the content remains the same, that means that you have the same contents on boo.com and foo.com, then just simply do a page by page redirection, that will carry as many value as possible to the new pages.

However, you if you do not have the same pages available on both domains, then there are a couple of things you can do:

• Not the exact same content on the new domain: redirect to what you think is the best match.
• No similar content on the new domain:
                                                         - Option 1: Redirect to a page (sort of a landing page) showing similar pages that the user might be interested in.
                                                         - Option 2: Redirect to a landing page or homepage.

Hope that helps!

Hi Corey,

You could use rel canonical from one to the other (defining the main one) and rel alternate for one to the other. Only one content gets indexed and Google will display in their results the appropriate version to the user's location.

You can read more here: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=189077

Hope that helps!

If those indexed by Google are showing up as the extra-domain.com instead of the primary domain.com and showing the description of the primary domain.com then you are risking your site to a backdoor penalty, which will cause a lot of harm.

My best advise: 301 redirect all those domains to the corresponding page of your primary domain.

Example:

• extra-domain.com 301 redirects to domain.com
• extra-domain.com/page1 301 redirects to domain.com/page1

Hope that helps!

PS: What was the idea behind purchasing 70+ domains? are those product domains? such as for example apple does (itunes.com redirects to apple's itunes page)?

There are some tools that can build the sitemap automatically setting all those values, like <cite>www.xml-sitemaps.com</cite>

But, the best answer would be to use:

• Page caching frequency: How many times your pages' content change?
• Last modified: return the actual file last modification date (dynamic? do that using the DB last update date).
• Priority: Set the priority to 1 to your most important pages and then start lower it for the others (less important, less priority).

Again, xml-sitemaps can handle almost everything (the standalone version (paid)).

Hope that helps.

Quoting Megan from SEOMoz:

"Hi Peekabo!

This is Megan from the SEOmoz Help Team.  Unfortunately, OpenSiteExplorer does not support https at this time.  Sorry about that!  This also means that any metrics that are gathered by our Mozscape Index (the index for OSE) are going to be for the http version of the site, which includes Page Authority.  We hope to support https sites in OSE at some point, but it's probably still a ways out.  We'll update this feature request  thread as soon as this feature is available, so you can keep an eye on it:  https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/20770156-open-site-explorer-to-crawl-https

_If you have any other questions about our tools, feel free to send us a message to help@seomoz.org.  _

Cheers!"

Ah you mean that if the dates of the reservation changes then it creates a duplicate page content?

If that's the case, you should use the rel="canonical" the definite page, no dates selected, just the page that shows the property.

Hmmm he can read REALLY fast? At least that seems what he is doing in the community page http://www.seomoz.org/community

The tag rel="dofollow" doesn't exist...

Apparently, he can also fix your roof or repair a bed

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